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OS Strategi®

OS Strategi® is a regionally based dataset useful for activities such as decision making in planning. It is a geometrically structured 1:250 000 scale vector database that defines the real world geographic entities (objects) as point and line features. Each feature consists of geometric and attribute data. Coordinate resolution is 1 metre.

A large sample image of Strategi.

Layers and features

Strategi comprises seven layers:

Communications

  • Airports
  • Motorways, primary routes, A roads, B roads and minor roads (over and under 4m wide)
  • Road tunnels, planned roads, roads under construction, road distance markers, roundabouts, multilevel junctions, motorway services, tolls
  • Ferries
  • Railways
  • Gradients, level crossings
  • National trails

Water features

  • Coastline
  • Foreshore areas
  • Rivers
  • Lakes and reservoirs
  • Canals
  • Lighthouses and lightships

Settlements

The extent of

  • Cities
  • Towns
  • Other built-up areas

Administrative Boundaries

  • National
  • County
  • Unitary authority
  • District
  • Associated area
  • National forest or park

Woods and land use

  • Geographical areas
  • Historical data
  • Windmills
  • Woodland
  • Marsh
  • Radio masts

Tourist features

  • Abbey, cathedral or priory
  • Aquarium
  • Camping sites (Camp, caravan and combined)
  • Castle
  • Cave
  • Country park
  • Craft centre
  • Garden
  • Golf course
  • Historic house
  • Motor racing circuit
  • Museum
  • Nature or forest trail
  • Nature reserve
  • Other tourist attraction
  • Park and ride
  • Picnic site
  • Preserved railway
  • Racecourse
  • Ski slope
  • Theme park
  • Tourist information centre (All year and seasonal)
  • Viewpoints
  • Wildlife centre
  • Youth hostel
  • Zoo

Positioned names

All names contained on the printed 'Road Map' map in their stored map positions.

Further information on Strategi is available to registered users within the Digimap service.